Our 2005 Annual Report

Here is our new report. It is a pdf file.

Our 2004 Annual Report

There are two files. Pages 1-7 and 10-18 are here.  Page 8-9 are here. Page sizes are different so the two files are necessary for printing. Both files are in PDF format.

Incorporated in 1974, Helping Hands Hawai'i evolved from the establishment of the Honolulu Council of Social Agencies' Volunteer Placement Bureau in 1941. With a mission to connect individuals, families, and organizations with available resources, both human and material, Helping Hands Hawai'i continues to provide a vital lifeline for the community, helping its members to help one another.

One of the most cost-efficient and effective non-profit agencies in the State, Helping Hands Hawai'i acts as a liaison between all sectors of the community,matching human need to the delivery of human services. Through its unique management style, Helping Hands Hawai'i is able to take the fullest possible advantage of the community's rich resources.

Through its collaborative efforts, Helping Hands Hawai'i coordinates a core of specialized services that fulfill a continuum of care. Separately, these programs represent distinct areas of need. Together, they work in concert to help all of Hawai'i realize its fullest potential in a rapidly evolving, increasingly global society.

In addition, Helping Hands Hawai'i facilitates numerous other projects, including the Honolulu Advertiser's Christmas Fund, the Honolulu Star Bulletin's Good Neighbor Fund, the Adopt-a-Family Program, and the Baby Layette Project which assists new mothers by providing the basic items for a newborn baby.

For more than 250,000 families and individuals each year, Helping Hands Hawai'i means the difference between hope and despair, between sickness and health, between stagnation and growth. For them, Helping Hands Hawai'i defines a new quality of life: a chance to overcome the obstacles that block the way towards meeting their full potential.

The dynamic empowering services provided by Helping Hands Hawai'i are even more remarkable for the ways in which they bring the people of Hawai'i and its resources to bear on the problems that affect our community as a whole. For our shared physical, emotional, and economic well-being rests on the collective welfare of each of our families, friends, and neighbors. By bettering the quality of life for those in need, Helping Hands Hawai'i betters the quality of life for us all.

In partnership with the people of Hawai'i, Helping Hands Hawai'i holds the promise of the future. For the people, of the people, and by the people, Helping Hands Hawai'i faces that future with optimism and determination. Building on the strengths of our past accomplishments over more than a quarter of a century, we welcome this new millennium and the exciting opportunities it has to offer.

As a non-profit organization, the revenues that support Helping Hands Hawai'i come from a variety of sources. In addition to contracts with state agencies, grants from local and national government, and the Aloha United Way, private, corporate and foundation gifts play a significant role in our ongoing success. At the heart of charitable giving  for Helping Hands Hawai'i are the more than 5,000 individual donors that represent a strong grassroots across the community. In this way, the hands that mold the future of Hawai'i are our own. It is a responsibility we gladly share, an ideal we passionately embrace.

2007 Board of Directors

Robert (Robbie) A. Alm    Senior Vice President   
Chairman                                Public Affairs 
                                                   Hawaiian Electric Company      

Patsy Saiki                        VP &  General Counsel                                                
Vice Chairman                       First American Title Insurance Co., Inc.    

Wendell Lee                       Tax Partner                                                             
Treasurer                               Tax & Legal Services                                                     
                                                 Accuity LLP                            

Gary Slovin                        Managing Partner                     
Secretary                               Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel

Nelson Chun                      Sr. V.P. & Chief Legal Counsel                                    
                                                 Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.                       
                                              
Danielle L.K.L. Lum          Communications Specialist                                
                                                  HSTA                                                                           
                                               
Albert J. Pattison              Senior Vice President, Human Resources
                                                  Aloha Airlines, Inc.                                            
                       
Brian Schatz                      President                                                         
                                                  Helping Hands Hawaii                                        
           
Timothy E.  Johns             Chief Operating Officer                                       
                                                  Estate of Samuel Mills Damon                           
                                               
Jennifer Diesman               Director, Gov’t Relations                        
                                                  Hawaii Medical Service Association  (HMSA)      
                                               
Faye Kurren                       President & CEO                                              
                                                   Hawaii Dental Service 

 Neal Yokota                 President & CEO
                                      Stryker Weiner & Yokota Public Relations, Inc.

Sara Daly                    Special Assistant
                                      Office of U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye

Mike Strata                  Senior Vice President
                                      Morgan Stanley